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PLANT PHYSIOLOGY Photosynthesis: C4 and CAM Plants Prof. Dr. S.M. Sitompul Lab. Plant Physiology, Faculty of Agriculture, Universitas Brawijaya Email : [email protected]

Tanaman C4 dan CAM adalah tanaman yang menggunakan lintasan fixasi CO2

tertentu untuk meningkatkan konentrasi CO2 di sekitar RUBISCO dalam khloroplast.

Ini berbeda dari tanaman C3 yang hanya menggunakan siklus Calvin yang juga

terdapat pada tanaman C4 dan CAM.

LECTURE OUTCOMES

After the completion of this lecture and mastering the lecture materials, students should be able;

1. To explain the assimilation of CO2 to be carbohydrate (sugars) in C4 and CAM plants

2. To explain the diffusion of CO2 from the atmosphere into the site of assimilation in the chloroplasts of C4 and CAM plants

3. To explain reactions, enzymes and products involved in the

reduction of CO2 to be carbohydrate in C4 and CAM plants

1. C4 Plants C4 Plant Evolution Discovery C4 Pathway Leaf Anatomy of C4 plants CO2 Reduction Type of C4 Plants Energetic of the C4 Photosynthetic System

2. CAM Plants CAM Plant Evolution CAM Plant Characteristics CO2 Reduction

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1. C4 PLANTS 1. C4 Plant Evolution

1. C4 photosynthesis has evolved more than 60 times as a carbon-concentrating mechanism to augment the ancestral C3 photosynthetic pathway.

2. C4 origins have all occurred over the past 30 Myr, with no difference in timing between monocot and eudicot lineages.

3. It is hypothesized that atmospheric CO2 depletion coupled with high

temperatures, open habitat and seasonally dry subtropical environments caused excessive demand for water transport, and

selected for C4 photosynthesis to enable lower stomatal conductance as a water-conserving mechanism.

Geological history of atmospheric CO2 and the estimated ages of C4 evolutionary origins. Geological history of atmospheric CO2 and the estimated

ages of C4 evolutionary origins. The estimated ages of C4 evolutionary origins in grasses (dark grey horizontal bars) and eudicots (black horizontal bars) were obtained using phylogenetic inference and calibration to fossils [35].

Thick bars represent uncertainty in the position of each C4 evolutionary origin on the phylogeny, while thin bars indicate uncertainty in dating of the

phylogeny (reproduced with permission from Christin et al. [35]). The palaeo-atmospheric CO2 history of the Cenozoic is reconstructed from multiple

independent proxies (pale grey circles), with a smoothed line of best fit encompassing all of the evidence (reproduced with permission from Beerling & Royer [4]).

Colin P. Osborne, and Lawren Sack Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 2012;367:583-600

http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/367/1588/583



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2. Discovery C4 Pathway 1. In the late 1950s, H. P. Kortschack and Y. Karpilov observed early labeling of

4-carbon acids when “CO2 was provided to sugarcane and maize. 2. After leaves were exposed to “CO2 for a few seconds in the light, 70 to 80% of

the label was found in the 4-carbon acids malate and aspartate—a pattern very different from the one observed in leaves that photosynthesize solely via the Calvin—Benson cycle.

3. M. D. Hatch and C. R. Slack elucidated C4 cycle, and established that malate and aspartate are the first stable, detectable intermediates of photosynthesis

in leaves of sugarcane. 4. The carbon 4 of malate subsequently becomes carbon 1 of 3-phosphoglycerate

(Hatch and Slack 1966).

3. Leaf Anatomy of C4 Plants 1. The key features of the C4 cycle are the presence of two distinctive

photosynthetic cell types: an internal ring of bundle sheath cells where

RUBISCO is located, which is wrapped with an outer ring of mesophyll cells. 2. The chloroplasts in bundle sheath cells are concentrically arranged and exhibit

large starch granules and unstacked thylakoid membranes.

3. On the other hand, mesophyll cells contain randomly arranged chloroplasts with stacked thylakoids and little or no starch.

4. However, there are now clear examples of single-cell C4 photosynthesis in a number of green algae, diatoms, and aquatic and land plants (Edwards et al. 2004; Muhaidat et al. 2007) (Fig. 8.12A).

C3 C4

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Fig. 8.12 The photosynthetic pathway in leaves. (A) In almost all known C4 species,

photosynthetic CO2 assimilation requires the development of Kranz anatomy (left panel). A few land plants, typified by Borszczowia aralocaspica and Bienertia

cycloptera, contain the equivalents of the C4 compartmentalization in a single cell (right panel).

Fig. 12.8C. Single-cell C4 photosynthesis. Diagrams of the C4 cycle are superimposed on electron micrographs of Borszczowia aralocaspica (left) and

Bienertia cycloptera (right). (B courtesy of Athena McKown; C from Edwards et al. 2004.)

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Comparison between leaf structure of C3 plants and C4 plants under lectron

microscope

Leaf structure model of C3 plants (leaft) and C4 plants (right)

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4. CO2 Reduction 1. The transport of CO2 from the external atmosphere to the bundle sheath cells

proceeds through five successive stages (Fig. 8.11).

2. In the C4 cycle, the enzyme phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPCase), rather than rubisco, catalyzes the primary carboxylation, the reaction of HCO3

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with PEP (phosphoenolpyruvate) (Sage 2004). 3. The 4-carbon reaction product, oxaloacetate, is converted into malate or

aspartate (depending on the species) by NADP-malate dehydrogenase or

aspartate aminotransferase, respectively. 4. Malate or aspartate is exported to bundle sheath cells where it is

decarboxylated, releasing CO2 that is refixed by rubisco via the Calvin cycle. 5. The specific paths by which CO2 is concentrated in the vicinity of rubisco vary

substantially between different C4 species.

Fig. 8.11 The C4 photosynthetic carbon cycle involves five successive stages in two different compartments

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Condition favoured by C3 plants and C4 plants. Osborne & Sack (2012)

5. Types of C4 Plants Principal C4

acid

transported to the BSC

Decarboxylating

enzyme

Variant

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Principal C3 acid returned

to MC Examples

Malate NADP-dependent malic enzyme (chloroplast)

NADP-ME Pyruvate Maize, crabgrass, sugarcane,

sorghum

Aspartate NAD-dependent

malic enzyme (mitochondria)

NAD-ME Alanine Millet,

Pigweed (Panicum

miliaceum)

Aspartate Phosphoenolpyruvate

carboxykinase

PEP-CK Alanine/

pyruvate

Guinea grass

(Panicum maximum)

BSC = bundle sheath cells & MC, mesophyll cells

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1. NADP-malic enzyme type

2. NAD-malic enzyme type

3. Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase type

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6. Energetics of the C4 Photosynthetic System

Cost of concentrating CO2 within bundle sheath cell = 2ATP per CO2

The reduction cost of 1 mol CO2 via PCR = 2mol NADPH+3 mol ATP

Total reduction cost of 1 mol CO2 in C4 plants =?

2. CAM PLANTS 1. CAM Plant Evolution

1. Many plants that inhabit arid environments with seasonal water availability such as pineapple (Ananas comosus), agave (Agave spp.), cacti (Cactaceae), and orchids (Orchidaceae), exhibit another mechanism for concentrating CO2

at the site of rubisco. 2. CAM is an ancient pathway that likely has been present since the Paleozoic era

(570 and 230 Mya) in aquatic species from shallow-water palustrine habitats. 3. The selective factors driving aquatic CAM are autogenic, and CAM is

widespread within the plant kingdom across at least 343 genera in 35 plant

families comprising ~6% of flowering plant species. 4. The oldest lineage with CAM described to date is represented by Isoetes, a

mostly aquatic or semi-aquatic group distributed in oligotrophic lakes or mesotrophic shallow seasonal pools (Keeley 1998).

http://www.mobot.org/mobot/photoessays/guizhou/images/Isoetes_yunguiense.jpg

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A typical well known CAM plant is pineapple

2. CAM Plant Characteristics 1. An important attribute of CAM plants is their capacity to attain high biomass in

habitats where precipitation is inadequate, or where evaporation is so great that rainfall is insufficient for crop growth.

2. CAM is generally associated with anatomical features that minimize water loss,

such as thick cuticles, low surface-to-volume ratios, large vacuoles, and stomata with small apertures.

3. In addition, tight packing of the mesophyll cells enhances CAM performance by restricting CO2 loss during the day.

4. Typically, a CAM plant loses 50 to 100 grams of water for every gram of CO2

gained, compared with 250 to 300 grams for C4 plants and 400 to 500 grams for C3 plants.

3. CO2 Reduction 1. In CAM plants, the uptake of atmospheric CO2 takes place at night when

stomata are open. - At this stage, gaseous CO2 in the cytosol, coming from both the external

atmosphere and mitochondrial respiration, increases levels of HCO3- [CO2 +

H2O HCO3- + H+].

2. Then cytosolic PEPCase catalyzes a reaction between HCO3- and PEP provided

by the nocturnal breakdown of chloroplast starch. 3. The resulting four-carbon acid, oxaloacetate, is reduced to malate which, in

turn, proceeds to the acid milieu of the vacuole. 4. During the day, the malic acid that was stored in the vacuole at night flows

back to the cytosol. Malate decarboxylase (NAD-malic enzyme) acts on malate to release CO2, which is refixed into carbon skeletons by the Calvin—Benson cycle.

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Fig. 8.13 Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM). In CAM metabolism, CO2

uptake is separated temporally from fixation via the Calvin—Benson cycle.

REFERENCE Taiz, L. and Zeiger, E., 2010. Plant Physiology Chapter 8: The Carbon Reaction.

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